Alright pandas, get your gloves, goggles and lab coats on, and start channeling your inner Bill Nye the Science Guy. Because today we’ve got a hilarious list of pics from the Science Memes Instagram account for you!
I hope you all studied hard back in your school days because everything from biology to physics will be covered down below, and these memes will be a whole lot funnier if you actually understand them. Keep reading to also find an interview with David Latchman of Science Bloggers, and be sure to upvote all of the pics that make you feel like a true Einstein. And don’t forget that objects in motion tend to stay in motion. So don’t take too long dissecting any one of them!
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But what if I lick it and then we have a grand, hallucinogenic love affair? Is that romantic then?
Load More Replies...remember the bite rule people: if it bites you and you die, its venemous if you bite it and you die its poisonous if it bites himself and you die its sorcery if it bites you and it sneezes its alergic if it bites you and you get sick its contagious if it bites you and you scream thats outrageous if it bites you quickly its instantaneous if it bites you while wearing a crown its regalias if you bite it and it glows its luminous if it bites you and you bite it at the same time its synchronous if it bites you and you're its leader its treasonous
if it bites you and its your leader its tyrannous if it bites you too much its gluttonous if you bite it and it bites back its flirtatious
Load More Replies...I see this so many times and I love it every single time
To gain more insight on the topic of science memes, we reached out to scientist David Latchman, of Science Bloggers, and he was kind enough to have a chat with us. First, we wanted to hear a little bit about David’s background with science. “I was interested in science from an early age. I read science books (for children), and loved watching documentaries on television: I was fascinated by how the world works and why it worked that way,” he told Bored Panda.
“I also had access to my uncle's comic collection and many of the (Marvel) superheroes had some background in science. To me, science didn't just explain the world but could be used for something positive. That is what I loved so much about it. Not only could it explain something about the world but that it could be used in a positive way,” David explained. “I didn't think I was going to fly or walk on walls, but wearing a lab coat was just about the coolest thing my childhood mind could imagine.”
Y'know how the new drive to land on the moon again? The project's called Artemis. Specifically, they intend to send women to the moon. Fittingly named, seeing as how Artemis is Apollo's sister.
Artemis is also the feminist goddess, the one who would kill any man who saw her bathing. She is one of the original "don't need no man" female aspects
Load More Replies...Scientists have a sense of humor too. Nerd humor is awesome because only other nerds are in on the joke.
“You know how all of Jupiter’s moons are named after his lovers and affairs?” You’re assuming I know more about both space and Roman mythology than I actually do.
Being a bit pedantic here, but Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Zeus. Galileo named the moons after Zeus's Greek lovers. A bit of cross-culturalism going on there.
Never discount the art of the double entendre. It should always be full price.
Sadly, this is the case with so many people whose only culture is microscopic.
When it comes to why the average person should take an interest in science, David says there are plenty of reasons. “The first is that we should all be life-long learners,” he notes. “Scientists are constantly learning new things and with it our understanding of the world. The second, which is sort of related to the first, is its impact on our lives."
“Many of the issues we face today are science and technology related, which affects the policy decisions we vote on or the decisions our elected officials must make,” he goes on to explain. “The consequences of getting it wrong don't necessarily apply to climate change - it can also apply to the equitable distribution of resources. If someone does not understand how science plays a part in those issues, they can't advocate for themselves (and others) through the voting process.”
Did you know that rats don't have a gag reflex and therefore cannot throw up? There's a species of fish that has a transparent skull so it can look right through its own head! Sri Lanka was once named Sarandib, which is the root of the word 'serendipity', and after that it was named Ceylon before becoming Sri Lanka in 1972! There is a kind of lizard which has a third eye! Clownfish can change their gender! Lewis Carrol's real name was Charles Dodgeson, and he was nicknamed "Dodo" because thanks to his stutter he would introduce himself as "D-d-d-dodgeson". Okay I'll go away now.
Load More Replies...Even more shocking--a physicist with a sense of humor!
Load More Replies...This is the first time I've seen this whole conversation, and it is so worth the read.
I thought he was going to say that it was the price of the textbook that made him cry.
Holy s**t here it is, the most perfect BURN of all time. *Takes screen shot
This isn't the sick burn it seems to be. 1st, this isn't 'the chemical composition of an apple'. There are various types of apple, but this list doesn't match any. Next, I googled 2 of these ingredients at random for toxicity data. The datasheet that popped up for n pentanol has a toxicity warning: 'Irritation of skin, eyes, and respiratory tract; headache and vertigo; dyspnea and cough; nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Double vision, deafness, delirium, and occasionally fatal poisoning, preceded by severe nervous symptoms, have been reported. (USCG, 1999)' i then chose n hexyl acetate, 1st data sheet that popped up: advised usage: 'Laboratory chemicals. Uses advised against: Food, drug, pesticide or biocidal product use.' I'm not an 'antivaxxer': (myself got vaxxed and boosted) but spreading misinformation is hardly helpful. And the 'gotcha' commenters in this case seem to be as uninformed as those they're trying to ridicule.
Antivaxxers are wrong, but that is absolutely not the chemical composition of an apple. They are all simple organic molecules with only C,H, and O. Biological compounds are much more complex. There is a lot more N and P, for example, and large, bulky proteins, etc. I'm all about showing the ignorance of antivaxxers, but you can't fight ignorance with falsehoods.
Yes but im pretty sure that if you inject yourself with apple sauce you will still die.
I can't sympathize with people who refuse to research facts, who deny the truth when it's presented to them, and continue to go down conspiracy rabbit holes.
i object to having those chemicals in my body. im allergic to apples.
Exhibit A: humans repeatedly put a rat into a restrictive cage just to observe another rat trying to effect a rescue ...
Load More Replies...Humans are always so shocked when other animals show empathy and compassion... Every. Single. Time. Silly silly humans.
While humans continue to reach new deaths of cruelty and depravity
Load More Replies...I might under fire for saying this, but I really, really wish people would stop using animals for experiments. It's disgusting and cruel
I agree with you in general, however in this case the rats were not physically harmed. The experiment shows that animals have morals. That shows furthermore that you do not need religion to be moral. The benefit of showing religion to be unnecessary for moral worth outweighs the distress these rats experienced.
Load More Replies...Turns out rats are kinder than I am... I mean obviously I would free someone who was trapped but I would never ever ever share my chocolate chips
I just love rats. They're so adorable. It's a shame they only given such a short lifespan.
And their tendency to develop cancer. I just lost my girls a few months ago. I'm plotting how to get more, despite the fact that my housemate would prefer me not to.
Load More Replies...Animals are closer to us in emotions than we give them credit for. Old school thinking was animals are on autopilot driven only by the need to eat and mate, any farmer, pet owner animal lover can tell you otherwise
David also shared some of his favorite fascinating science facts with us. “Birds can see magnetic fields. They make use of a protein, cryptochrome, that can be found in both animals and plants,” he told Bored Panda. “This protein, which is sensitive to blue light, has a variety of functions, one of which is regulating circadian clocks. (It is one of the reasons why you should avoid blue light at night. This molecule is somewhat attractive for magnetoreception (or the ability to detect magnetic fields). As there is lots of blue light during the day, they can use the molecule to sense magnetic fields and navigate during the day as they migrate to far off lands. It is fascinating how both plants and animals have found use for this molecule.”
Engineering solution - "assume the scutoid is a uniform cylinder, now [do maths]"
Scutoid sounds more like an insult than a shape. "Begone, you scutoid!"
As an old man, I never needed this as an adult. Instead of weird volumes and areas, they should be teaching budgeting, home ec, and woodworking... I have used them constantly.
Home Economics was definitely the highlight of my public education. BUT! There is one Mathematics thing that I use constantly in many areas of my life. Like, what percentage is 21 out of 73? Okay, 21/73=X/100. Cross-multiply, so: 21*100=73X. There we go. About 28.8%. It comes in handy way more often than you might think. For example, if I have an image that's 240 by 380 and I need to make it 300 pixels tall, that's: 240/380=300/X. 240X=380*300. So it will be 475 wide.
Load More Replies...Have Australians been prone to accidentally eating a fish? How the hell does one "accidentally" eat a fish ? Me: consumes fish after (presumably) preparing and (hopefully) cooking said fish... Also me: OOPSIE! I accidentally ate a fish! How did that get there?? Weird!
Well, I suppose it's just that Australians are such daredevils that they didn't consult with science before catching, naming, selling, cooking and eating the fish 😅
Load More Replies...They could have at least told us the species, suspense is killing me
It's official name is Epinephelus fuscomarginatus. I haven't found a common name for it other than It's one of 92 species of Grouper. I'm guessing they just go by grouper.
Load More Replies...Queensland Museum fish expert, Jeff Johnson, commented on the new grouper species, “I’ve been told they are quite tasty”.
It even makes sense from a physical/mathematics perspective. Travelling forward in time at a rate faster than normal is theoretically possible, whereas travelling backward at any rate at all would violate the laws of physics as we know them. So you figured out how to zoom forward, only to realize you can never, ever go back. ;)
Load More Replies...That would mean u didn't figure out how to go back to the precise time u left.
True. I suspect they may have found out they cannot go back, as otherwise this would open a can of worms of causality problems and paradoxes or require branching time paths (as in Back to the Future)
Load More Replies...... leaving the time machine, he excitedly checked his Bitcoin, guaranteed of all the riches he'd ever need to... Well shucks.
Why does this sound like the Umbrella Academy? (I've only seen like 1 episode)
Oof! I think my brain just melted. So Back to the Future wasn’t accurate? Lol.
“There are more than three states of matter,” David went on to share. “Most of us know (from our science classes) that matter comes in three forms: solids, liquids, and gasses. If you studied physics, you may have come across another state of matter known as plasma - a hot ionized gas found in fluorescent lights and neon signs. Beyond these more well known states of matter, scientists have discovered a myriad of states that exist under special conditions: Some of these exist at ultra-cold temperatures like the Bose_Einstein condensate, while others exist at very high temperatures like the quark–gluon plasma where matter itself breaks down.”
The last time my water broke, I took a baby home. You gotta take broken water seriously. LOL
If anyone doesn’t get it, it’s a diagram of a h2o molecule (2 hydrogen atoms and 1 nitrogen atom) and the diorama of water just broke. Hope this helps! (every one should know this I knew this in grade 7)
Since this is for the sake of education anyway, it's oxygen, not nitrogen. And this kind of "breaking" happens on the regular in liquid water - it is, in fact, the exact reason water exists on the pH scale at all. pH is all down to the number of H+ ions, which is the little white ball on its own.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the time my cat fell off the roof (long story) I went to school and told my class cats can fall 3 floors without being injured. My class: How many repeats did you do? It was my proudest moment as a teacher
I was just gonna comment, did n one notice her two casted arms?
Load More Replies...Yeah I knew a guy who did that in high school. His name was Leroy. Broke both arms and both legs. Absolute legend.
I can’t stop laughing that her arms are busted, and I feel bad about laughing. 🤣
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/middle-school-break-arms-jumping-off-water-tower-science-project/
Seem like the group member who didn't do their part took all the credit
Meaning the rest of her team found out how high is too high lol
Load More Replies...We had a kid do an extremely detailed project on chicken sex. With pictures. And labels.
And while memes are obviously no substitute for a true science class, David says that they can help people become more interested in the field. “Memes typically focus on one science fact or quote that many people may not know in one image. They say a picture is worth one thousand words, but we all know that a one-thousand word article that is factually wrong promotes misinformation or is misinterpreted does a disservice to the reader,” David notes.
But it's still important to fact check anything you read on the internet. “Generally, I think most science meme creators are pretty knowledgeable in the field, but the message they think they are trying to convey may not be the one the viewer gets,” David adds. “In that case, science memes can be a bad thing. But just as in writing (or any form of science communication) the creator must take care in crafting the message, and in that case, it can help people understand science better.”
If you’d like to further expand your scientific knowledge and learn from some experts, be sure to check out the Science Bloggers articles on Medium right here.
Nerd fact alert: A million Earths can fit in the Sun. The sun is a relatively small star in comparison. The largest star we know of can fit a billion of our suns. So space is both awesome and terrifying.
That's, like.... at least four and a half bananas
Load More Replies...It's just a description of the number of Earth's can that are able to to fit in the sun. Earth's can fits Earth perfectly, of course, so the number of Earth's can that can fit in the sun is the same as the number of Earths that can fit in the sun. :-)
Load More Replies...Can someone who knows this stuff make a comparison between, say, two different fruits to give an easier image of how big the sun is compared to earth?
Astronomers keep finding more moons of Jupiter each year. Like, WTAF is going on out there?
I went to a planetarium once. The presenter asked the audience if anybody had a guess of how many months Jupiter had. I asked "how big does it have to be to be considered a moon." He didn't have an answer for that.
Load More Replies...Only Earth's moon is close to being correctly proportioned to its parent planet though. Mars' moons are tiny, smaller across than a large town, while Jupiter's sheer size makes even its largest moon seem tiny by comparison.
this is funny to me since my name is jupiter. but I have no kids ahahaha
Well I mean duh! lol. My favourite episode of SBSP is "Sailor Mouth" Hey SquidWard how the *dolphin noise* how ya?"
I’ll be honest with you, pandas. When I was in school, science was always my least favorite subject. I just could not wrap my mind around many of the concepts, and I had a hard time understanding why I needed to know that E=mc2 and that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Honestly, I’m still not sure why I need to know those things. But I will say that as I have gotten older, I have come to appreciate all of the brilliant scientists of the world who are out there making sure we understand as much as we can about ourselves, our world and the concepts that keep us alive. I must admit, it’s pretty amazing that we know that the Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.
If you’re interested in the memes on this list, chances are you’re a bit of a science nerd yourself. But if you’re not quite convinced that we should all be interested in science, allow me to share a few of the reasons why science is so important, pulled from this article on Enlightio. First of all, without science, we would understand just about nothing in the world around us. But thanks to scientists who have taken the time and effort to study our world and our bodies, we can appreciate the complexity of ourselves, other animals, our planet, our solar system and much more. “Science helps us see the world around us in a new and exciting way,” the editors at Enlightio write. “Through careful observation and analysis, science enables us to discover the hidden wonders of our universe.”
By the looks of my closet, every damned bit of it is in there.
Load More Replies...My Maths teacher used to throw shade on one of the History teachers. "If {history_teacher} has X bottles of hair restorer, ....."
In my high school there was a friendly rivalry between the two science teachers, Mr Tinker and Mr Oster. The first creatively used Tinker Toys to create molecule models. The other one liked to express that his models looked more impressive because he used "Oster Toys" (models like the "broken water" post), not a toddler's toy.
Load More Replies...Political Science Majors throw a lot of shade considering that they're never certain of *anything*. Black-Cats...852ce3.jpg
My favorite quote on whether psychology is a science is from the old TV show, Bones, episode titled, “The Girl in The Mask”. Dr. Haru Tanaka said, “You are entering the realm of psychology, a field of unverifiable speculation”.
It's in black holes! We actually do know now. We figured it out a couple weeks ago. Dark energy is in black holes.
Yeah except that explanation doesn't really make sense when you think about it.
Load More Replies...Sorry, I hid the 0ther 95%. It's better you don't know what it is, trust me.
Mine was "New, like used" when I was born. Regular warranty was worthless and didn't cover a thing. 😉
Load More Replies...It's more like a brain with curiously branching nerves fit into a bone frame, wearing a meat suit inside a strong, yet delicate dermal barrier, that we cleverly conceal under armor disguised as "fashion".
We are our nervous system, the brain and the feelers we call nerves are much spookier than a skeleton
True that. Sadder, too, and without an epic spooky scary song to go with 😔
Load More Replies...I hate this and I don't want to see it again but I keep re reading it because it's FASCINATING
Because going to bed is hard and waking up is hard. Even if you're not neurodivergent. But, like, especially if you are.
Only when you're young, so...I don't think that's actually the answer.
I guess being bodyslammed on to while sleeping is being acted upon by an unbalanced force?
Science can also be used to solve countless problems. The scientific method is extremely useful in getting to the bottom of many issues and working to find a solution. “For example, if a farmer finds that his crops aren’t growing well, he can use the scientific method to identify the problem,” the Enlightio editors explain. “He might ask questions about the soil, the weather, and the type of seed he’s using. Then he can test different hypotheses to see which one is true. This process of problem-solving is important in making discoveries.”
“Science can also be used to make predictions. When we understand how the world works, we can make educated guesses about what’ll happen next,” they go on to write. “For example, scientists can study past patterns of climate change to predict how the climate will change in the future. This information can help people make decisions about how to prepare for future changes.”
He was awesome! And really underrated, he got a lot of his work stolen
Load More Replies...😂 Edison who? I much prefer to know a good bit more about Lewis Latimer and Nikola Tesla! I do think Edison has some decent work to his name, but he had no excuse for what he did to men like the above mentioned.
...or to the elephant Edison electrocuted in public to trying to discredit Tesla's invention of the "deadly" alternating current generator in favour of Edison's direct current system. (And, as an aside, I am pissed that a company has taken the name "Tesla", and is run by someone who appears to have.the ethics and leadership skills typical of Edison a cenfury ago.)
Load More Replies...Nicholas Tesla was a genius in his early years. He was developing a way to distribute electricity freely through the air - scientifically plausible. Edison and others discredited him so they could distribute electricity through wires in the air, and profit tremendously from it. We still rely on this type of unreliable technology. Anyone else lose power this last snowstorm in Michigan and other states in the US? I did for a week and it was so very cold. Lucky for me I have great neighbors. We all looked out for one another and made it through.
Even if you can freely transmit electricity through the air, it still has to be generated somehow as you can't get something for nothing. What electric company is going to transmit power to the air for free?
Load More Replies...Because he is better than everyone else and damn well knows it. DaVinci would have been the same.
Load More Replies...Ok so technically they COULD control a toy boat by shouting commands, because he played himself into be an unwitting command transmitter in the control loop.
so that means there's no reason we should be scared of them lol. They're pretty much harmless so there's ALSO no reason to catch them and cut off their fins and put them back in the ocean to make shark fin soup for the stupid rich people
Harmless? No, definitely not. Most sharks are *relatively* harmless, but they ARE wild animals. Bears aren't harmless. Mountain lions aren't harmless. Coyotes aren't harmless. But we can live alongside them, as long as we respect them and their habitat.
Load More Replies...Some people think that those blank eyes look soulless, I always say they look adorably derpy
right? I love sharks, one of my favorite animals. They just look derpy in general and it's great.
Load More Replies...Sharks are awesome! We need to get rid of shark nets, they don't work anyway they just kill marine life.
It's true. Sharks IRL do not eat. Those teeth are just for show so they can get a mate. /S They do BOTH obviously. It's just that they are less likely to do the first one to you than movies would have you believe. But of course they eat with those teeth and for whoever / whatever is the meal it isn't pretty. Kind of how most folks think bears are pretty except for the few folks that get eaten by bears. or have their head literally knocked off by a bear and then get eaten. TLDR: Carnivores and omnivores eat meat.
Humans kill more sharks per year than sharks kill humans.
We show our love by emitting more CO2 than algae can ever hope to eat up.
Isn't (Prehistoric)Algae partly responsible for oil deposits ?
It's responsible for us having oxygen, and thus kick-starting the whole concept of life as we know it.
Load More Replies...Hey! You've been included in some sci-fi movies, Martian comes to mind. If you want more love algae try being less gross
Maybe from algae's perspective it is we who are gross, ever think of that?
Load More Replies...If you’ve never been naturally drawn to science yourself, you might be wondering how anyone in the world could possibly want to dedicate their life to this field. But as it turns out, many scientists are quite passionate about what they do and don’t take their career paths lightly. According to a study from the Pew Research Center, when it comes to why working PhD scientists were inspired to pursue their specific fields, 32% of them reported being influenced by the “intellectual challenge”, a “lifelong curiosity”, and/or a “love of science or nature”. 27% of these scientists were inspired by mentors, professors or teachers, and 17% said they were inspired by labs, fieldwork, internships and science fairs. 12% received family encouragement, 9% were inspired by a childhood experience of natural world or science museums, and 8% became scientists to contribute to society.
Just because your sister is also your second cousin that doesn't let you off!
Load More Replies...I'm too late to speculate on when the banjos show up on this post!
Mushrooms fried in honey with a pinch of black pepper are astounding. Just have them on toast. Mmmmmm.
Load More Replies...People should invite him to parties more, he's a fun-gi (sorry, I'll see myself out)
Cue Cordyceps evolving to survive slightly warmer body temperatures…
this kid is Daniel Liu! BP did an article about him a while ago, he's awesome https://www.boredpanda.com/prodigy-child-daniel-liu/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Load More Replies...I failed organic chemistry and had to retake it. On the plus side, I studied it at Denny's in Columbia Missouri, USA and cried so much they would give me free pie.
I feel your pain all too well. Failed then passed organic chemistry 1. Then failed organic chemistry 2 twice and changed my major from a BS to a BA to avoid further torment
Load More Replies...He seems to enjoy it. Why is it mutually exclusive to be a kid and be really good at something and even study it because you love it? He doesn't seem to have a hard time.
Load More Replies...i'm just a little bit older and i love organic chem - its much better than inorganic.
Make his experience fun! He may remember you and here you when he has his own company.
My high school chemistry teacher referred to organic chemistry as alchemy. Perfection.
A humbling experience for the rest of the class who are struggling.
One passionate, 50-year-old microbiologist told Pew Research that she’s had a passion for science for as long as she can remember, from about age 4. “My second grade teacher was a big influence on building that passion,” she shared. “She was an amateur naturalist and taught us a lot about ecology and the natural world. In high school, I discovered my passion for molecular biology. I remember learning of the [Meseleson-Stahl] experiment in my AP Biology class, and I remember thinking, ‘Yes, this is exactly the kind of thing I want to understand.’”
"The bony-eared assfish may have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates." Well, it just didn't know better. :)
YES assfish is safe I will take that new insult
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I was thinking it sounded more like Rick & Morty. "The rim flappe on a bongfish is then mated to the bungus of its fuccbone, thus completing the plumbus."
Load More Replies...However, when the bungus prolapses, the fuccbone must retract, otherwise endangering the scrotewad and her pootsack.
Wow! We only discussed frogs in our biology class. That class sounds better. LOL
I hate being that person that criticizes humor, but this is inaccurate. I enjoyed almost all of the submissions in this post though.
I think it's supposed to be a joke poking fun at the hilarious-sounding names of bits of critters in biology, rather than being actually literally factually accurate XD
Load More Replies...I know that song! "The rim flappe's connected to the fuccbone, the fuccbone's connected to the scrotewad, the scrotewad's connected to the pootsack, now hear the word of the Lord!" (banjo flourish)
Back during the pandemic when Twitter said all employees could work at home I tried applying for a janitorial position...
And as with almost anything else, there is room for humor and comedy in science as well. Your high school biology teacher might not have been cracking too many jokes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t today! According to Courtney Adams at Lifeology, “Science memes can do much more than make someone laugh; they can help engage people in learning—in a fun way! More specifically, humor can be a useful tool for science communication. Humor can trigger someone’s initial interest in a subject and encourage further engagement. It can also raise awareness or encourage a positive perception of a topic.”
TIL that they use a wall of lava lamps to generate truly random numbers.
Serious question: why IS lava called magma when it's still underground? I haven't been able to find an answer.
So the one in my basement is a magma lamp and the one upstairs is the lava lamp. Got it
Welcome to Bored Panda, post recycling capital of the world!
Load More Replies...This is still false. There is a frame, it's heart-shaped. A gesture from a man to his loved one. Stop re-posting this falsehood.
If it were humans in a situation where there would be no financial gain (stranded on a deserted island type situation), you'd end up with a fallen over, wonky-a*s attempt at building a hut. There'd be only two remaining, sleeping under a leaf. Lamenting over the fact that they should have waited until the need for cannibalism had arisen. The thought never crossing their minds that there may have been those who actually possessed some discernable survival skill, amongst the other 95% who lost their lives in the great war over how to build a floor.
Load More Replies...Lovely, but not true. The beekeeper shaped the hive and laid foundation strips for the bees to build from, creating these shapes inside.
Nooo. They built the combs two cells deep (one on each side) because that is what bees do no matter how the framework is set up. Any deeper would be pointless / not accessible
Is this list making you miss your old days back in the chemistry lab, pandas? Or maybe you were more partial to biology and getting to dissect frogs? Regardless of which field of science was your personal favorite, we hope you’re enjoying these hilarious scientific memes. Keep upvoting the ones that teach you something new, or that your fellow science nerds would appreciate, and then if you’re interested in checking out even more memes that Bill Nye would appreciate, you can find another Bored Panda article featuring science memes right here!
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That took a lot of time to dissect. Scientist must have had nerves of steel ... I'll see myself out.
You're right that it took a lot of time! I think this is the only completely removed nervous system in the world.
Load More Replies...Wow! This is exactly what I look like when I’m having a panic attack- uncanny!
Same here. My husband is like a furnace, my hands and feet are always cold.
Load More Replies...When my cold feet accidentally touch my husbands warm and toasty back whilst in bed, I can tell you that he does not think we have reached an ideal temperature......I actually cannot tell you what he says, it really is not printable:)
Anyone ever thought of seeing a doctor to get their circulation checked? .. oh.. it’s supposed to be cute? Sorry to think on was running a fever.. or the other was room temperature….
98.6 is just average temperature for humans. Meaning some do run hotter or colder with nothing wrong with them health wise. Females can have different personal average, depending on where they are at in their monthly cycle. Doesn't mean anything is wrong, either. As long as they know their personal average to know if/when they are sick, all is good.
Load More Replies...If Grace Jones loved him he must have been good at something.
Load More Replies..."Exponentially more" doesn't make sense. Something can increase in an exponential manner, but this is just nonsense
And if the base of the exponent was between 0 and 1, that would make Lundgren less qualified than Nye.
Load More Replies...By the power of Greyskull! (Was literally watching him on TV half an hour ago, before I disappeared down the BP rabbithole).
I love the live action movie, it is so 80s and I love it
Load More Replies...I did not expect all those degrees from the “if he dies, he dies” guy.
The Dan Reynolds punch guy has degrees
Load More Replies...Finally, somewhere where I can nerd out! *nerds out about the music video for Believer by Imagine Dragons*
Isn't this kinda gatekeeping science, though? They are both qualified to be called scientists.
The words "exponentially" and "called" need to be removed from this meme...
I love spicy food. Currently on the toilet giving birth to a firey demon spond and regretting NOTHING.
Fun fact, you have the same capsaicin receptors in your anūs and rectūm as you do in your mouth. Happy crapping!
Load More Replies...I am awed and afraid by people who enjoy spice. Meanwhile, I'm crying on the floor because the mild salsa was too much for me. How do any of you still have taste buds??
I think is has to do with the cultural area you are from. It develops your taste buds to like certain foods. I'm from the subcontinent, and love spicy food!
Load More Replies...Oh, Nightshade family, is there anything you can't do? Sweet, savory, spicy, starchy, poisonous....
I would avoid the nightshade called "deadly" as it will probably kill you, being deadly and all
Load More Replies...Oh my gosh it's scientific name is literally 'boops boops' XD Screenshot...d2-png.jpg
Oh sweet, a fellow Amigan 🥰 There was also a game Gulp! that was like Lemmings, but with fish instead.
Load More Replies...Add in molecular biochemistry and see what that does.
Load More Replies...Now don't tell the other sciences, but they are all really only just physics. "Ahem,..." says math.
I was gonna go with the YMCA but the Macarena is probably more fitting, here.
Load More Replies...Aaaand I'm no closer to understanding calculus then I was in highschool. Oh, that's not calculus? Exactly.
That is calc.... anyways triangles suck!!
Load More Replies...The arms are what the line would look like if you were to draw x,y coordinates on on a graph + using those equations. ~~~~ If x is the horizontal line ---- & y is the vertical line |, then if you graph the first picture the line will look like /. x=y so (x,y) = (-3,-3)(-2,-2) (-1,-1) (0,0) (1,1) (2,2) (3,3), etc. Graphing out the second equation x^2 = y will give you a 'U' shape, again like the arms... (-3,9) (-2,4) (-1,1) (0,0) (1,1) (2,4) (3,9), etc.
Load More Replies...Lol Art history Professor, "why did you choose this painting to do the presentation on?" Me, "It met the requirements of the paintings I could choose from"
Had this one: has to attend a seminar and write a blurb about it. One of the questions was "why did you pick this seminar?" Uh because my grade requires it?
I once answered an interview question "what motivates you?" With "Payday". I didn't get the job lol
Unless you are someone with an autoimmune condition, in which case your cells are like an obsessive ex who wants to destroy you.
Thanks guys (continues eating salty snacks destroying as many cells as possible)
When an eel bites your thigh and you bleed out and die that's a moray
Load More Replies...And just to put it over the top, eel blood is toxic to humans. This is why eel is always served cooked.
Also, because if it wasn't it would be like a tug-of-war over who eats who.
Load More Replies...How many of you kids got that reference besides Connie, Mr. Drums and me?
Load More Replies...When you swim in the sea and you get bit in the knee... That’s a moray.
When it lurks in a cave and puts you in your grave that’s a-moray 🎶
If that was really the case, I wouldn't need to spend anything on heating my home :/
And by students you mean adults, right? I never stressed over a test like I have buying the right house, being laid off, etc. Relish what you know as 'stress' now, kids, LOL
As a kid who was bullied so badly that I got anxiety and depression bad enough to want to off myself, and as an adult who has worked with many vulnerable children, I can safely say that my adult stress levels are small fry in comparison. I’m happy for you that you had a stress free time as a student, but it’s really reductive and insensitive to suggest that adults are the only ones who know ‘real’ stress. I was terrified of becoming an adult because everyone kept telling me that I had it easy because I was a child and that adulthood would be way worse. It isn’t the stress olympics.
Load More Replies...My brother worked as an emergency admitting clerk at an early part of his adult life - he was at work when this huge man came in, came right up and said, sort of timidly, "Um, I have a really bad headache." My brother told him to take a number, take a seat, and he would be called. As the man turned away, my brother saw a hatchet embedded in his skull, and all hell broke loose, medicals running, gurneys sliding, all sorts of stuff. When it was done, the guy was fine. The hatchet went in between the lobes, didn't hardly touch the brain. The police were called because this was very obviously not self-inflicted. This tiny, little woman comes in and wants to know where her man is. As it is being explained to her what was going on, a cop comes out with the hatchet in an evidence bag, she sees it, and she yells, "Hey! That's mine! I couldn't find it." Later, the man refused to file charges.
Jesus! The poor guy! Domestic abuse isn't all one way.
Load More Replies...I saw a video of a doctor reacting to Final Destination...it was pretty much 20 mins of a guy saying "yeah, a tree through the body incompatible with life"
I did a compound fracture of my left leg below the knee. Fell as leg broke and sat on it. Dragged the leg to straighten it out and to get it out from under me and to see what happened. My bone grated on the concrete as I did this. Terrible sensation. On antibiotics for weeks. Was lucky to keep my leg and survive.
So you die early and unhappy. Sounds like my mom. But hers wasn't her heart. You can get cirrhosis of the liver and never drink alcohol. Decades of morbid obesity will do the same thing.
I loved when Mallory Archer said "Dr. Krieger," and Krieger said, "I'm not that kind of doctor....not the other kind, either"
I have a friend who is a medical doctor, and has a PhD in biochemistry. We call her doctordoctor.
What's an astromoner, though? Someone who moans when seeing stars? 🤔
Oh baha they spelt it wrong lol...astronomer
Load More Replies...I took my sons to see this movie in the theater, i was the only one who laughed.
Fun fact: Not everyone has XY or XX. Some people have XXY, XXXY, XXXXY, XXYY, XYY, XYYY, XYYYY, X or XXX. Fun fact 2: We always get taught XY creates a male body and XX creates a female body, but that's not always the case, reality is much more complicated. Some people with XX are born with a completely male body. Some people with XY are born with a body that is completely female on the outside. And some people with XY are born with a body that looks female on the outside but naturally develops into a male body during puberty. Biology is super interesting.
And then there's the rare cases of genetic chimerism that cause XX/XY. Intersex is amazing in all of its forms and we have done a great disservice to humanity in trying to erase it!
Load More Replies...In computer science? Or to you ever give your variables useful namens....
When I was in third grade, my friend and I kept hitting our funny bones on purpose because we LIKED how it felt. We were so weird. XD
honestly I'm pretty sure I tried to do that and couldn't ever hit it so I just had bruises on my elbows all the time
Load More Replies...Agree, but I've found hitting the knee - the ACL?? - causes my knee to buckle, my legs can no longer support my weight, and then the delayed pain reaction hits my brain with ferocity.
The whole bottom row would pretty much melt instantly, they're a bit unstable.
So do I eat every single piece quickly to get a -possibly neutralizing- chemical reaction from mixing the elements or do I eat them slowly so the radioactive ones decay before I get to them? :D
Ok- I figured out how to win the game. My first thought was this has to be the most dangerous game ever conceived. Most of this stuff would kill you if ingested in it's pure form but it's snowing outside so I'm going to figure this out. First thing I noticed is nowhere it says you must eat the chocolate. So my first thought to cut out the gold and make some money. That would've been an amateur mistake. I checked the prices for precious metals- Gold is only $1,774/oz., Palladium and Iridium are worth a bit more but Rhodium is a cool $20,250/ oz. Take a knife cut out the Rh (Rhodium), you walk away alive and richer.
sorry if y'all don't know the deadly elements but I'm up to play. I'll take uranium
once in middle school we were learning about velocity or something so we were literally rolling marbles off ramps in cardboard boxes so they wouldn't go off the table and we had to wear goggles because we were doing an experiment
I mean you need to be shafe. A marble may suddenly gain legs and stab you in the eye with an implanted knife
Load More Replies...Haha, our Highschool chemistry class was different. Our teacher was pretty relaxed, she always was like "so now you might want to open your mouths or close your ears, otherwise your eardrums will burst 😄"
If you've ever seen a steam explosion you wouldn't be near a school class boiling water unsupervised.
we all knew that one girl who immediately asked if her hair would be ruined
I was in high school in the '60s. Our chemistry teacher would let us do stuff like dropping a chunk of sodium into water to see what would happen---and I'm still here to tell the tale. Ponder that, 21st century nanny state.
In high school Earth Science class the teacher showed us what happens when you put water on a chunk of sodium. There was a LOT of smoke and the stuff burned a small crater into the black granite table top. This was before smoke detectors, so the alarms didn't go off. I'll never forget the look on his face or the demonic giggle that came out of him. I think it was 1972.
The best chemistry group in my year. 'set 1'... By the end of the first month, we were no longer allowed to use 'chemicals' after making (and igniting) thermite, and the concrete floor. We were still allowed to work with water. A week later, we were no longer allowed to use water...
The cells weren't social, so they couldn't be lonely either. 🤷🏻♀️
Load More Replies...Had to try to explain to my 12yr old niece how we did research at a library. She was completely lost. But how did you know where to look?!?
Load More Replies...When I was in nursing school, one of my instructors said it was her job to introduce all of the curriculum and help us apply that knowledge. Then she said the rest of your career will be to have knowledge of where to look for the answers you are seeking and to be able to verify the information you want. As long as you know where to look for the information from reliable scientific sources.
I read something about grapes being the most dangerous food for kids choking. Having a young child, I tried to look for the data. There's LOTS of articles on google. Lots of references from "studies" that have been done. When I looked at where they got the data for their study, every single one ultimately led back to one hospital's data of child mortality. Under 20 children if I remember rightly, can't remember the exact numbers but something like 7 kids died of grapes over 5 years, 6 died of crackers, 5 choked on sausage or similar numbers. Dozens of articles, millions of parents petrified to feed their kids grapes, because of one small, statisically insignificant hospital's records. It could so easily have been sausage or crackers that became the choking pariah.
Load More Replies...You're lucky, when I went to college, we didn't have computers, only slide rules.
In the 80s I spent 6 hours digging through back issues of Endocrinology Today for a physiology paper. Would have taken like 20 minutes today.
There was a time before google when you had to read and then *gasp* remember things! 😮
well now we can just *gasp* google it then we still have to *GASP BIG* remember it!
Load More Replies...Note: this is exactly how every IT tech describes their job to non IT people.
That's life after college too so don't stress. You're gonna do fine.
Maybe this is better,imagine trying to learn the solar system while the planets names are "xqys3748"
I always wondered how SG1 could remember planets they've been to with names like P2X3549. I'd be like "you know... it's that hot desert planet where the people have antennas coming out of their heads".
Load More Replies...I don't know Trappist system has a dramatic sort of sci-fi sound..
Turtles millions of years ago: FIE, THOU HORROR Turtles now: FEEEEEED MEEEE
Some idiot fish jumped out of the water and now I have to pay taxes.
Good point. 680 years later and we’re not a bit more intelligent.
Load More Replies...I'm in the US and use both because I understand how numbers work.
Load More Replies...in case anyone doesn't get it, a Mol is an mount of substance in grams that is equal to the atomic mass, so 18g = water because H2 = 2 nuclei = 2g, 0 = 8 protons 8 neutrons = 16g... and each mol has NA (avogadro's number) of molecules. Useful for making sure your chemical reaction does not leave leftover reagents, e.g. if you have 2g H2 and react with 8g O2, you end up with exactly 1mol of water and no leftover O2 and H2.
You've mixed some things here. Mol is the unit of amount (symbol n). 1 mol = 6.022 × 10²³ pcs (which is the avocado's constant). You can calculate the amount with molar mass (symbol M, unit g/mol) and mass: n=m/M, or the mass with molar mass and amount: m=n*M. Because mol is a unit of amount, it expresses how many particles there are, for example in this case atoms. For every one oxygen atom you need two hydrogen atoms to make water, therefore you'll need twice as many mols of H than O. The molar mass of H is 1.008 g/mol and the molar mass of O is 16.00 g/mol. So if we have 2 mol of H and 1 mol of O, we can calculate the masses: m(H)=(2mol)*(1.008g/mol)=2.016g and m(O)=(1mol)*(16.00g/mol)=16.00g
Load More Replies...No, sorry. this is more likely the result of a rolling shutter effect. The camera scans top to bottom and the frame changed halfway through the scan. Orders of magnitude slower than the speed of light. You can see the same effect in old movies where you see a TV in the background and those fuzzy lines wipe up and down the screen.
Was going to comment this. Another example. 11-640ca0edd855c.jpg
The fact that light doesn't travel with infinite speed (and that isn't demonstated in the picture either) was a well understood before, and essential to, Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity. And the eclipse experiment was done to test the validity of massive objects bending space/time from his General Theory of Relatively (also nothing to do with the picture). What has been proven is that people like to beclown themselves by commenting on things they don't understand.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
Load More Replies...This is the one thing that I always find gives me an existential crisis. No matter what we do, how careful we are, everyone will cease to exist. We could solve world hunger, energy, deforestation, create world peace, but all of human history and the carefully evolved animals and plants will still be erased eventually. My head asplode.
And last week they wouldn't let me post W***y Wonka 😒
Load More Replies...An uncensored curseword?!?! *Gasps in a very Victorian lady way* My heavens! Cornelious, where is my silk fainting pillow?
Frequently I just check first, and/or double check with that. Is it efficient? No. Do I still do it with the same calculator multiple times? Yes. Do I have a problem? Also yes.
Adenine is represented by A, and thymine T, guanine G, and cytosine C. Adenine bonds with thymine, cytosine bonds with guanine. So basically A-T and C-G bands. (They can be switched as T-A or G-C bands) anyway so that’s the coding of our DNA. It’s fascinating, really. Anyway so the dna band that opposed this one would be TCTCTCT. And that code could be a code for a start or gene. That’s how RNA works. It gets one helix of DNA and the proteins line up and that’s how proteins are made.
Load More Replies...I don’t get DNA jokes. My mom doesn’t either. Guess it runs in my genes
Natural selection. Evolution by means of natural selection.
Load More Replies...Well some of those rocks contain elements that are rarely found on earth
🎶When its jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside that's a moray🎶 🎶When an eel bites your thigh and you bleed out and die that's a moray🎶 🎶When it sulks in a reef and has two sets of teeth that's a moray🎶 The whole song, courtesy of AJay, SkyBlueandBlack, and A Wild Bean 😁 BE9F23AD-9...b1-png.jpg
but wait I learned from Luke's goldfish that that poor bread of goldfish have been bread into oblivion and they can't actually see on the sides of them because of those bubble fluid filled sacs their eyes point upwards. They don't even have dorsal fins. The bubbles will regrow if the get punctured but they're prone to infections if they do. The bubbles are also apparently infamous for getting sucked into filters. Poor little fishies
Once when I was a kid I was feeding bits of bread to goldfish in a pond and one kept eating it til he flopped up, looking dead. So I guess I bread it into oblivion.
Load More Replies...Bubble-eye goldfish. Sadly they're kind of like lykoi cats and pug dogs; the feature that distinguishes them makes their lives worse.
Load More Replies...Holy cow I haven't seen this story referenced outside of the original article I read a few years ago. This s**t actually caused this guy serious problems because no one believed him for a long damn time that he wasn't drunk.
Question: "What are your plans for the weekend?" Guys Answer: "Sit on my couch, eat a loaf of bread and get drunk."
Is it just me or does the picture look like a bunch of sprinkled donuts all together
Yeah I read this story... poor guy went thru hell. Job loss, DUI's, and relationship and doctor issues bc nobody believed him! Thankfully he received a diagnosis eventually.
Yeah it’s almost like people speak languages other than English :0
Load More Replies...Umm... I think you were lied to about how easily the progression of brain development in idiots stops
Syntax error is when you put a typo in the calculator so it can't do anything
If it was literally every element, wouldn't that by definition include noble gases?
Love the joke but reminds me of my only disappointment visiting Italy: craving pepperoni and learning that it was an Italian-American invention and brought to Italy b/c American tourists expected it and generally only available in Italy in major tourist locations, e.g. around the most visited sites in Rome.
Humans and mammals may be big but there are not as many of them as insects and they haven't been around very long. It's interesting to look at biomass. It gives you a completely different perspective on the living world. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-biomass-of-earth-in-one-graphic/ Biomass_v9...c1-png.jpg
no idea who keeps voting you down for random comments.
Load More Replies...hmm not THAT confusing if you use v (lowercase) for velocity... also Viscosity is represented by the symbol η “eta”, and the use of the Greek letter mu (μ) is also common. Furthermore, viscosity is also known as dynamic viscosity or absolute viscosity.
Oh goodness.Yesterday I had to solve a problem in which v denoted frequency but V denoted potential. My cursive handwriting did NOT help in this process.
Just want to advise anyone on here in college that I do not recommend taking calculus, chemistry and physics at the same time. That was a rough semester and I developed an eye twitch that lasted for about 3 months
Launching a volume of an electrically-conductive non-Newtonian liquid combines all these into one horrific equation...
That was my favorite photo in forensic anthropology. Fun class. Teacher had a whole bunch of teeth in a jar, most of which were donated by the Ducks (NHL team).
That's freaking awesome. And a bit disturbing to know how many teeth they lose in hockey haha
Load More Replies...Turtles too. The only remaining connection with land is when females leave the ocean one night for the beach to lay their eggs.
They left for the land and decided to nope right the way back into the water, except for the hippos, they stayed.
How to get around the bp censor bot while still using all English characters and not combining words: s h i t
Translation: There is this smart guy who changed into a pickle- funniest * I have ever watched,
Dihydrogen oxide.... colourless, odourless, dangerous in large amounts...
Actually had a professor encourage us to mouth pipet. Granted we were pipetting grape juice, but still. Bad habits Barney.
Not really bad. I performed all of my high school chemistry practicals using a mouth pipette. Our school couldn't afford the pump-type ones. Although sometimes we got lucky and could use the measuring cylinders.
Load More Replies...Not sure Karen Wetterhahn would have found this funny (chem professor, died after a few drops of dimethylmercury fell on her protective gloves..)
Yeah, that's scary s**t. The only compound I'd like to interact with less is probably Chlorine trifluoride (ClF3), which is not only incredibly toxic, but also, t0 quote from John D. Clark's "Ignition": "It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water—with which it reacts explosively."
Load More Replies...we do because we chose them, that's the point.
Load More Replies...I had to read that three times until I correctly pronounced the words. Then I realized I actually get it. 😂
The hypotenuse is the slanted bit on a right angles triangle, and you can measure it by using Pythagorus' theorem were the sides squared will add up to the hypotenuse squared. However you can use a ruler to measure it so... Pythagoras is betrayed :( lol hope that helps! :)
Load More Replies...Interestingly: "Ancient Mesopotamian mathematicians may have discovered the Pythagorean theorem millennia before the Greeks as a means to survey land. The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. This broken clay tablet dates from the Old Babylonian (OB) period (1900–1600 BCE) and contains a table of “Pythagorean triples” over a millennium before Pythagoras was born." plimton-64...611ab.jpeg
I know it’s a long time ago but I don’t remember anything from our physics lessons. Chemistry - I can only remember the magnesium wizzing round in circles in a bowl of water. Biology - remember a little bit more particularly the dissection of a cows eye (why did the butcher have to leave the eyelashes on!) and the fact that no matter what decade it is boys will never tire of drawing anatomically incorrect doodles in textbooks. And discovering by my self what happens to a plastic bottle of hot water when you immerse it in very cold water.
BWWAAAAAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHHAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-(Dies of laughter
I know it’s a long time ago but I don’t remember anything from our physics lessons. Chemistry - I can only remember the magnesium wizzing round in circles in a bowl of water. Biology - remember a little bit more particularly the dissection of a cows eye (why did the butcher have to leave the eyelashes on!) and the fact that no matter what decade it is boys will never tire of drawing anatomically incorrect doodles in textbooks. And discovering by my self what happens to a plastic bottle of hot water when you immerse it in very cold water.
BWWAAAAAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHHAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-(Dies of laughter
